Hi all, I'm trying to write a script that will take the current windows/areas/screens open in Blender and edit them (move them, delete them, change their type ie. the 3D view to the Text Editer). Is this even possible? If so, can someone offer some input as to how I might go about this? Kind Regard...

Hello I'm just getting familiar with the Python API. What I understand right now what it is in 2.48a is: You can run a script and then after it does its job the script will be terminated. my Question is: Is it possible for a script to be fired up and then is running in the background and also catch...

Blender did not provide an interactive shell by default in the past. This changed a bit with the Interactive Python Console of Campbell Barton (aka ideasman42), which is accessible from the script window (Scripts > System > Interactive Python Console). Unfortunately this console does not support cop...

Great! I have incorporated the basics of it in the Blender Project Management Toolkit CVS. (The project is at http://projects.blender.org/projects/blenderproject/ .) It seems that the current Python unittest module will not, without some modifications, run unit tests from within Blender (at least I...

Release news from http://pythonide.stani.be This release is the result of a complete rewrite of the run system. It's now possible to run multi-threaded applications (like wxPython, gtk, ...) with SPE and still control them through the debugger. Also selected text can be executed in the shell. Read m...

Unhappy with Blenders text editor to write Python scripts? This Python IDE can run inside and outside Blender. Open the spe.blend file and press Alt+P. Spe has a Blender browser which can show all objects and modules in hierarchical tree control. Spe runs stable under Windows, Mac and Linux. Copy th...